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Carboxine

Level 3ContestedIn Winter's Dictionary

Carboxine is a pesticide residue — Fungicide used on barley, beans, corn, oats, peanut hulls, rice, sorghum, wheat for animal feeds

Also: Vitavax, Carboxin

What it does

Fungicide used on barley, beans, corn, oats, peanut hulls, rice, sorghum, wheat for animal feeds

Where you'll see it

Animal feeds (grains, peanut hulls)

What the research says

Poison by ingestion; moderately toxic by skin contact.

Sources

  • A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives (Winter): A fungicide used on barley, beans, corn, oats, peanut hulls, rice, sorghum, and wheat for animal feeds